external hard drive

Storage is becoming cheaper and cheaper: you can find hard drives that cost less than a dollar per GiB. Buying an external hard drive to make backups (or even having a backup server) is a must if you value your work and what you have stored in your computer.

However, doing backups should be easy enough to be done on a regular basis.

Portable memory is important but do you really need to carry 320GB in your pocket? Techbyte explains why it merits a four-star review.

Ok, my question is: Is it possible to boot an operating system from an external hard drive? I'm planning on buying a macbook pro, but I don't like mac's OS, Leopard.

Whatever your current storage capacity, you can usually benefit from an increase especially when at an attractive price.

Geeks.com sent us for a review an external hard drive enclosure case, the " TVisto Series 3.5 " Multimedia HDD Enclosure" .

But this is not just another hard drive enclosure, but also a multimedia jukebox.

I have purchased four or five of this model in both the 500GB and 750GB sizes for my workplace about a year ago. I am very pleased with them so far. The are quiet and they are easy to hide away on your desk. They are easy to set up and format on OS X. As...

Works exactly as promised. Just plug it into the USB port and it will do the rest for you! It saves common files, which includes pretty much anything you use on a regular basis unless you are doing very specialized work. Documents, spreadsheets, email...

This is a GREAT external hard drive. It's fast (7200 RPM), can stream a movie straight off it and simultaneously backup a movie with very few lag spikes. It's quiet, only hear it every once in a while when it's doing some heavy duty writing/reading. It's...

If your sole purpose is to offload archives, then this is a great product. Most people don't think twice of backing up their existing data. Also, each version of windows comes with a backup program which originated from the Veritas Brand of Software. You...

My expectations were beyond met when I plugged this in. It amazes me that a 1tb external HD can be so quiet. I had returned a 1tb older version of Western digital's external HD because it sounded like a jet engine. WD clearly fixed that problem. The...